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BOILER PEDESTAL.

Patented Nov. 15,1881.

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BOILER-PEDESTAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,722, dated November15, 1881.

Application filed April 14, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BECK, of Eldred, county of Sullivan, andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in aBoiler-Pedestal, of which the following is a specification.

It frequently occurs that the pedestals or columns that are made tosupport the boilers of kitchen-ranges have to be cut off to permit theboiler to stand under the ceiling of the kitchen; consequently,if saidcolumn be formed in an ornamental style and a portion ofits lower end heremoved, its symmetrical effect is more or less injured.

It is the object of this invention to overcome this difficulty; and itconsists in providing a raised or convex base-plate for the lower end ofthe pedestal or column that supports the boiler of kitchen-ranges, andforming the central or raised portion of said plate with anumber ofcircular shoulders, like steps or terraces, each one of whichcorresponds to some section of the pedestal, and so forming the lowerpor tion of the pedestal or column that a certain portion may be removedwithout materially injuring its form, and at the same time it will havea proper support on some one of the said shoulders, as will hereinafterappear.

The drawing represents an elevation of the stand and its base, but witha portion broken out to show a section of the parts.

At A is represented a base-plate for supporting the pedestal or columnof a kitchenboiler, as at B. Said plate is raised in a convex form, asshown, and around its central por- (No model.)

tion are formed a number of circumferential shoulders or rabbets, likesteps or terraces, as at (J O 0, one above another, from the largest andlowest one to the smallest and highest one. The column is so designedthat some section of it will fit upon one of the said rings or steps,and consequently, if the workman finds the pedestal too high to permitthe boiler to stand under the ceiiin g, he can cut or break off aportion of the lower end, as indicated by the grooves at I) D D D &c.,until it is short enough, and then the end so shortened will find aresting-place upon someone of the said steps, and the symmetricalappearance of the column and base will not be materially injuredthereby, and one not familiar with the construction would not know thatthe column or pedestal had been reduced in height.

I therefore claim- A pedestal for kitchen-boilers, composed of a raisedor convex base having a series of shoulders or steps and a cone-shapedcolumn, having at intervals circumferential grooves, the diameter ofeach section of the column at these points being the same as that ofsomeone of the steps of the base, whereby the column will fit upon saidbase when a section of the column is removed, as hereinbefore set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presenceof two subscribin g witnesses.

GEORGE BECK. 1L. s.| Witnesses:

JOHN E. MARSHALL, WM. P. ABENDRO'IT.

